Dear Friends, When comedian Mike Birbiglia went home during his first year of college over the holiday break, he noticed a drop of blood in his pee. He knew that was bad. It's just something you know at a basic level: those two things just aren't supposed to mix. It turned out to be a cancerous tumor on his bladder, which the urologist removed. "Symptoms often are lucky," Mike explained on Andy Richter's podcast, because they allow you to catch things early. Despite this so-called luck, he needed to undergo a cystoscopy (google that at your own risk) every few months in order to monitor the potential for cancer. The tumor was thought to be the result of a certain type of toxic paint he may have been exposed to as a child.
Mike Birbiglia and the Lucky Droplet
Mike Birbiglia and the Lucky Droplet
Mike Birbiglia and the Lucky Droplet
Dear Friends, When comedian Mike Birbiglia went home during his first year of college over the holiday break, he noticed a drop of blood in his pee. He knew that was bad. It's just something you know at a basic level: those two things just aren't supposed to mix. It turned out to be a cancerous tumor on his bladder, which the urologist removed. "Symptoms often are lucky," Mike explained on Andy Richter's podcast, because they allow you to catch things early. Despite this so-called luck, he needed to undergo a cystoscopy (google that at your own risk) every few months in order to monitor the potential for cancer. The tumor was thought to be the result of a certain type of toxic paint he may have been exposed to as a child.